Re: net booting sbm (smart boot manager)

[Carl Karsten]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 05.05.2017 07:18, Carl Karsten пишет:
> > i pxe boot grub,  that works.
> >
> > often I want to boot local media and don't hit the "boot device" key
> (which
> > isn't consistent)
> >
> > If I could host this on my tftp server and boot it, that would do what I
> > need:
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
> > "Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use
> > interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be
> > absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the
> > features needed to boot a variety of OS."
> >
> > any tips on how to make that happen?
> >
> > with selinux I did this:
> >
> > label sbm-floppy
> >     kernel syslinux/memdisk
> >     append initrd=util/sbm/sbm.img
> >
> > memdisk would setup a floppy like ram disk.. or something.
> >
>
> GRUB does not have native support for RAM disk. Given that this is
> completely standalone, there is little sense to re-implement memdisk
> really. Just load it from grub.
>

menuentry "sbm" {
linux  util/sbm/sbm.img
}

error: too many setup sectors

chainloader util/sbm/sbm.img

result:
SMBK Bad!

I am guessing that one is closer


-- 
Carl K